Recreation Leave
La Trobe staff are frequently told that they must clear their recreation leave during the calendar year otherwise it will impact upon the local budget position. This is not the case. While it is desirable to clear leave before it becomes excessive there is a process that must be followed if staff are to be directed to take recreation leave once they have accumulated more than 40 days. Excess recreation leave can only be paid out on termination.
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Letter to NTEU La Trobe Branch regarding recreation leave
Published: 23 May, 2010Tags: LTU, Letter, recreation leave
This letter from People and Culture confirms that staff do not have to take recreation leave in the year that it accrues.
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Letter to LTU regarding direction to take recreation leave
Published: 29 Mar, 2010Tags: LTU, Letter, recreation leave
This letter explains why it is not possible to direct staff to take annual leave in the year that it accrues.
56.5 A staff member whose accrued recreation leave entitlement equals or exceeds eight weeks may be notified in writing that they are required to take sufficient recreation leave to bring their accrued entitlement below six weeks, but only if the requirement is reasonable.
56.6 Any such notice shall provide that, within two months of receipt of the notice:
(a) the employee may negotiate with their Supervisor an agreed time for the taking of such leave, to bring the accrued leave entitlement below six weeks within 6 months of the receipt of the notice; or
(b) the Executive Director (People and Culture) may approve continued accrual of leave above eight weeks on the condition that an application has been made and approved for the employee to take sufficient recreation leave to bring their accrued entitlement below four weeks within 2 years from the receipt of the notice.
56.7 If,
(a) at the expiry of 2 months from the receipt of the notice referred to in sub-clause 56.5 above, no agreed plan for reducing accrued recreation leave entitlements has been established in accordance with sub-clause 56.6 above; or
(b) the employee cancels such planned leave;
and there are no exceptional circumstances, then the University may direct the employee to take sufficient recreation leave to bring their accrued entitlement below six weeks, and may direct the dates on which such leave shall be taken. The University must give at least two (2) months notice of the date on which the staff member is directed to take leave.
56.8 Provided that the requirements of sub-clause 56.5 have been met, where a staff member is directed to take recreation leave in accordance with sub-clause 56.7, the employer will be entitled to deduct from the employee’s accrual the amount of recreation leave that has been directed to be taken, at the conclusion of the directed period.
(Extract from the La Trobe University Collective Agreement 2009)
Branch Contacts
Branch Office
Room 225b David Myers Building East Bundoora Campus
La Trobe University
Phone: 03 9479 2124
Fax: 03 9479 1503
nteu@latrobe.edu.au
http://www.nteu.org.au/latrobe
Virginia Mansel Lees
Branch President
v.mansellees@latrobe.edu.au
Serena O'Meley
Branch Industrial Organiser
nteu@latrobe.edu.au
Tim Rodrigo
Branch Organiser
t.rodrigo@latrobe.edu.au
